OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Josselin de Jong (1947): Ili'uun Erai

ma

•  auxiliary expressing temporal or modal dependence, usually translatable with "when" or "if"(eng).

amima otjowhen we see(eng)

amima nōif we gave it up(eng)

nimatehaif he accepts(eng)

Note: Probably this ma is identical with ma 'come'